Wash Post: Hillary Soldiers On

In recent weeks, Clinton has increasingly turned to recounting anecdotes about people she has met, shifting attention away from her and back to voters, a formula that Bill Clinton used to great effect.

She recalled some of those individuals -- a soldier in San Antonio, a working mother in McAllen -- at a street-corner event in Dallas. And later in the day at an economic roundtable in Columbus, Ohio, where she stood in front of a banner that read "Solutions for the American Economy," she solicited stories from visitors about their economic problems, including one woman's tale of losing her home to foreclosure. But the motorcade accident hung like a dark cloud at every moment, with Clinton pointing to the four children the officer left behind as an example of the need for a social safety net.

Her supporters gasped as she described the accident in Dallas earlier in the day. "It was just heartbreaking," she told the hushed auditorium.

Clinton will travel to New Orleans on Saturday before heading to Rhode Island, another March 4 state, on Sunday. She and Obama are scheduled to participate in a debate in Cleveland on Tuesday night -- possibly their last.